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And without further ado:
Wow! Now that was a crazy week for the mobile device market.
First Google went all crazy in announcing plans to acquire Motorola Mobility to the chagrin of it seems just about everyone; and just yesterday Hewlett-Packard went even crazier announcing it was basically shuttering its mobile operations including the WebOS business it acquired along with Palm last year for more than $1 billion.
I am just going to blame this level of crazy on the heat.
On the topic of Google/Motorola, it appears most of the consternation comes from the fact that Google already seemed to have a pretty good relationship with just about every device maker in the world by providing its Android platform to power just about every smartphone that did not start with an “i”.
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